When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.